'Romantic' definitions:
Definition of 'romantic'
From: WordNet
adjective
Belonging to or characteristic of Romanticism or the Romantic Movement in the arts; "romantic poetry" [syn: romantic, romanticist, romanticistic]
adjective
Expressive of or exciting sexual love or romance; "her amatory affairs"; "amorous glances"; "a romantic adventure"; "a romantic moonlight ride" [syn: amatory, amorous, romantic]
adjective
Not sensible about practical matters; idealistic and unrealistic; "as quixotic as a restoration of medieval knighthood"; "a romantic disregard for money"; "a wild-eyed dream of a world state" [syn: quixotic, romantic, wild- eyed]
noun
A soulful or amorous idealist
noun
An artist of the Romantic Movement or someone influenced by Romanticism [syn: romanticist, romantic] [ant: classicist]
Definition of 'Romantic'
From: GCIDE
- Romantic \Ro*man"tic\, a. [F. romantique, fr. OF. romant. See Romance.]
- 1. Of or pertaining to romance; involving or resembling romance; hence, fanciful; marvelous; extravagant; unreal; as, a romantic tale; a romantic notion; a romantic undertaking. [1913 Webster]
- Can anything in nature be imagined more profane and impious, more absurd, and undeed romantic, than such a persuasion? --South. [1913 Webster]
- Zeal for the good of one's country a party of men have represented as chimerical and romantic. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Entertaining ideas and expectations suited to a romance; as, a romantic person; a romantic mind. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Of or pertaining to the style of the Christian and popular literature of the Middle Ages, as opposed to the classical antique; of the nature of, or appropriate to, that style; as, the romantic school of poets. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Characterized by strangeness or variety; suggestive of adventure; suited to romance; wild; picturesque; -- applied to scenery; as, a romantic landscape. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Sentimental; fanciful; fantastic; fictitious; extravagant; wild; chimerical. See Sentimental. [1913 Webster]
- The romantic drama. See under Drama. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'romantic'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abstract,
- absurd,
- adoring,
- affectionate,
- airy,
- allegoric,
- amorous,
- aroused,
- autistic,
- bathetic,
- beery,
- chimerical,
- cloying,
- conjugal,
- crackpot,
- created,
- daydreamer,
- demonstrative,
- dereistic,
- devoted,
- Don Quixote,
- dreamer,
- dreamer of dreams,
- emotional,
- enthusiast,
- escapist,
- exotic,
- extravagant,
- fabulous,
- faithful,
- fancied,
- fanciful,
- fantasized,
- fantastic,
- fictional,
- fictitious,
- filial,
- fond,
- fresh,
- glamorous,
- gooey,
- gushing,
- husbandly,
- ideal,
- idealist,
- idealistic,
- idealized,
- idyllic,
- illusory,
- imaginary,
- imagined,
- impassioned,
- impractical,
- in the clouds,
- invented,
- languishing,
- legendary,
- libidinous,
- lotus-eater,
- lovelorn,
- lovesick,
- lovesome,
- loving,
- lustful,
- mad,
- made-up,
- maternal,
- maudlin,
- mawkish,
- melting,
- mushy,
- mythic,
- mythical,
- mythological,
- mythopoeic,
- mythopoetic,
- namby-pamby,
- nostalgic,
- nostomanic,
- otherworldly,
- oversentimental,
- oversentimentalized,
- parabolic,
- parental,
- passionate,
- paternal,
- picturesque,
- poetic,
- prophet,
- Quixote,
- quixotic,
- rhapsodist,
- romancer,
- romancing,
- romanesque,
- romanticist,
- romanticized,
- saccharine,
- sappy,
- seer,
- sentimental,
- sentimentalist,
- sentimentalized,
- sloppy,
- slushy,
- soft,
- soppy,
- starry-eyed,
- sticky,
- storybook,
- strange,
- sugary,
- sweet,
- tear-jerking,
- teary,
- tender,
- transcendental,
- transmundane,
- unpractical,
- unrealistic,
- Utopian,
- utopian,
- utopianist,
- utopianizer,
- uxorious,
- visionary,
- wifely,
- wild,
- wish-fulfilling,
- wishful thinker